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skulldaughterThis is a recap of the interlude session we played between our first and second Planescape campaigns. It features two parties, formed of both the Sigilettes from Faction War and the not-yet-united members of the Shadows from the upcoming Gang War.
I wrote this summary a while back, so it starts with a reintroduction of some of the main cast. The beginning of my recaps for the second campaign will also feature introductions, but after that I think we will be past lists of player characters. This session also references two characters, Jet and Hera, who first appeared in an interlude I wrote about what Senna was getting up to during a session I wasn't able to attend. You can read that interlude here.
Setting the stage
Two years after the Sigilettes saved the city, most of them aren't even famous for it.
Nico Hardly (Owlin Bard, any pronouns) is now a successful musician, and they play pretty regular shows. Their brother Duo has started a very successful retail chain in the time since our last campaign.
Dachs (Badgerfolk Fighter, he/him) has been running his noble estate and planning a wedding between two of his retainers. He's a primary investor in Duo's company, though he rarely concerns himself with the running of said stores.
Senna, AKA the Shaded Daughter of Umbra (Human Barbarian/Monk, she/her) has been working three jobs: security for the Garden, a place that offers myriad services but is most well known for its interplanar sex workers; head chef at a restaurant that has just become a chain; and the Shaded Daughter, one of the spiritual leaders of the Umbra-kai.
Trokolius, AKA Trok, AKA Uncle Trok, AKA Old Man Trokolius, AKA Trok Wolfsbane (Tiefling Ranger, he/him) is Senna adopted brother, and has been working as an emissary/ambassador between the two different kins of Umbra: The Umbra-kai, who fled the Shadowfell and are led by their goddess Umbra the Skull Mother, and the Umbra Veil, a new, reactionary splinter of the Umbra-kai who are starting to reclaim older traditions from before their people left the Shadowfell involving the worship of the Veiled God.
Topaz Claw, AKA Paz (Tabaxi Druid, she/her) is just kinda hanging around causing trouble. She's really caught the eye of Shemeshka, a fox-woman devil who runs a crime syndicate out of a neighborhood of furries called the Wilderhood.
The Assets
Team A, calling themselves the Assets, consisted of Senna, Nico, & Paz, with two new faces: Grimulf, a shady dogboy shifter, and Minx Ermine, a ferret furry femme fatale. They went to steal a prototype velocipede (car). Along the way, they encountered Umbra Veil enforcers, known as members of the Nightshroud, who were agents of the Dahila Sophia, the interplanar wizard mafia who functionally run Sigil nowadays.
The Buttresses
Team B, calling themselves the Buttresses, consisted of Trok, returning former member of the Sigilettes Inigo, and two new faces: an Umbra-kai Paladin named Avery Brightweave and an Umbra Veil elf named Lyn. A member of the Umbra-kai was on the run for unauthorized portal access, and Nes, leader of the Veil and Senna's cousin, came to Senna & Co. to find her and get her out of the city before the Dahlia made Veil agents make an arrest of an Umbra-kai. The evidence the team uncovered led them to a shady githyanki scammer, who admitted to essentially offering portal access for money, then turning people over to the cops for more money. The missing Umbra-kai, a tiefling named Jet, was discovered with her newborn in this githyanki's office, and Trok called in some favors to find the pair safe passage to the Outlands. As they left, Jet told Trok that the baby’s name would be Hera.
A Contract, and Revenge Forestalled
Upon the teams' returns, two things happened: Shemeshka entered the velocipede market with her new co-founder Dachs, creating "Dachswagen Motors". Immediately after that, she cast Grimulf into a portal, laughing at him; he had taken this job to get a shot at killing her, but she revealed that actually, the person who killed the leader of his pack in the Beastlands was in fact Trok, who he had been unknowingly oh so close to not hours before. She kicked Grimulf out of Sigil, and he definitely won't be back…
Carnival Fun, and Conversations
Everyone had a great time at the carnival, which Senna had missed when the team attended the first time due to her Umbra-kai duties. Senna also had a conversation with her partner Rose, who works at the Garden and is, in secret, the last Cleric of Aoskar, God of Portals. Senna wants to be a mother, but the duties she and Rose both must attend to leave no room in their lives for that, and while Senna was saddened to hear it she agreed with Rose, and the two of them held each other as the session drew to a close…
I wrote this summary a while back, so it starts with a reintroduction of some of the main cast. The beginning of my recaps for the second campaign will also feature introductions, but after that I think we will be past lists of player characters. This session also references two characters, Jet and Hera, who first appeared in an interlude I wrote about what Senna was getting up to during a session I wasn't able to attend. You can read that interlude here.
Setting the stage
Two years after the Sigilettes saved the city, most of them aren't even famous for it.
Nico Hardly (Owlin Bard, any pronouns) is now a successful musician, and they play pretty regular shows. Their brother Duo has started a very successful retail chain in the time since our last campaign.
Dachs (Badgerfolk Fighter, he/him) has been running his noble estate and planning a wedding between two of his retainers. He's a primary investor in Duo's company, though he rarely concerns himself with the running of said stores.
Senna, AKA the Shaded Daughter of Umbra (Human Barbarian/Monk, she/her) has been working three jobs: security for the Garden, a place that offers myriad services but is most well known for its interplanar sex workers; head chef at a restaurant that has just become a chain; and the Shaded Daughter, one of the spiritual leaders of the Umbra-kai.
Trokolius, AKA Trok, AKA Uncle Trok, AKA Old Man Trokolius, AKA Trok Wolfsbane (Tiefling Ranger, he/him) is Senna adopted brother, and has been working as an emissary/ambassador between the two different kins of Umbra: The Umbra-kai, who fled the Shadowfell and are led by their goddess Umbra the Skull Mother, and the Umbra Veil, a new, reactionary splinter of the Umbra-kai who are starting to reclaim older traditions from before their people left the Shadowfell involving the worship of the Veiled God.
Topaz Claw, AKA Paz (Tabaxi Druid, she/her) is just kinda hanging around causing trouble. She's really caught the eye of Shemeshka, a fox-woman devil who runs a crime syndicate out of a neighborhood of furries called the Wilderhood.
The Assets
Team A, calling themselves the Assets, consisted of Senna, Nico, & Paz, with two new faces: Grimulf, a shady dogboy shifter, and Minx Ermine, a ferret furry femme fatale. They went to steal a prototype velocipede (car). Along the way, they encountered Umbra Veil enforcers, known as members of the Nightshroud, who were agents of the Dahila Sophia, the interplanar wizard mafia who functionally run Sigil nowadays.
The Buttresses
Team B, calling themselves the Buttresses, consisted of Trok, returning former member of the Sigilettes Inigo, and two new faces: an Umbra-kai Paladin named Avery Brightweave and an Umbra Veil elf named Lyn. A member of the Umbra-kai was on the run for unauthorized portal access, and Nes, leader of the Veil and Senna's cousin, came to Senna & Co. to find her and get her out of the city before the Dahlia made Veil agents make an arrest of an Umbra-kai. The evidence the team uncovered led them to a shady githyanki scammer, who admitted to essentially offering portal access for money, then turning people over to the cops for more money. The missing Umbra-kai, a tiefling named Jet, was discovered with her newborn in this githyanki's office, and Trok called in some favors to find the pair safe passage to the Outlands. As they left, Jet told Trok that the baby’s name would be Hera.
A Contract, and Revenge Forestalled
Upon the teams' returns, two things happened: Shemeshka entered the velocipede market with her new co-founder Dachs, creating "Dachswagen Motors". Immediately after that, she cast Grimulf into a portal, laughing at him; he had taken this job to get a shot at killing her, but she revealed that actually, the person who killed the leader of his pack in the Beastlands was in fact Trok, who he had been unknowingly oh so close to not hours before. She kicked Grimulf out of Sigil, and he definitely won't be back…
Carnival Fun, and Conversations
Everyone had a great time at the carnival, which Senna had missed when the team attended the first time due to her Umbra-kai duties. Senna also had a conversation with her partner Rose, who works at the Garden and is, in secret, the last Cleric of Aoskar, God of Portals. Senna wants to be a mother, but the duties she and Rose both must attend to leave no room in their lives for that, and while Senna was saddened to hear it she agreed with Rose, and the two of them held each other as the session drew to a close…
